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Tapper vs Capper - What's the difference?

tapper | capper |

As nouns the difference between tapper and capper

is that tapper is one who taps while capper is one that caps.

tapper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who taps
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in
  • A tap-dancer
  • A phone tapper or wiretapper
  • (US) A tapster
  • (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
  • (UK, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.

    • capper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One that caps.
  • A device or person that applies caps, as to bullets or bottles.
  • A person that makes or sells caps.
  • A finale.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, February 1, Joe Queenan, Super Bowl Suits, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The real capper is when St. John starts fawning over Hugh Hefner , host of the finest Super Bowl party known to man, musing: “The question isn’t whether Hef is the hippest octogenarian on the planet. }}
  • (US, slang, dated) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.

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